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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
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Subject: Re: Binary compatibility break understood ?
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010509204803.22796A-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:59:34PM +0200
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On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:59:34PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > format, so I don't see any real reason for raising version requirements
> > for libc.
> 
>  That would be needed if elf(32|64)-trad(little|big)mips was specified
> explicitly as rtld-oformat in sysdeps/mips/mipsel/rtld-parms and
> sysdeps/mips/rtld-parms.
> 
>  Note that libc doesn't require any version of binutils at all now. 
> This is probably bad as using pre-2.11 versions of binutils may yield
> weird results. 

Seems like only certain version are affected; the more or less randomly
choosen one I use for the RH 7 port seems to work quite well so far.  What
bug is that?

  Ralf